Run Time: 2 hr 16 min | Director: Sung-hee JoĬast: Song Joong-ki, Kim Tae-ri, Jin Seon-kyu It’s an ambitious film that gets very lost in its own parallel universes, but it’s worth it for Mbatha-Raw, Oyelowo, and the minor romance subplot between Ernst Schmidt and Ling Tam. The interpersonal relationships and conflict between the crew members-Ernst Schmidt ( Daniel Brühl), Ava Hamilton ( Gugu Mbatha-Raw), Jason Kiel ( David Oyelowo), Monk Acosta ( John Ortiz), Gordon Mundy ( Chris O’Dowd), Sasha Volkov ( Aksel Hennie), and Ling Tam ( Zhang Ziyi)-makes up for the uneven storytelling. While The Cloverfield Paradox failed to live up to the expectations set by its predecessors and is certified rotten, it has a brilliant cast that makes it worth watching. This is a perfect example of how the film sits at the intersection of science fiction and horror, delivering on scientific technobabble and nightmare-inducing monsters and body horror.

As the crew tries to repair the Cloverfield Station after a power surge, they discover a woman named Mina Jensen ( Elizabeth Debicki) inside of the wall of the station fused with wires and screaming in agony. After two years of unsuccessful tests, the crew is finally able to maintain a stable beam, however, chaos ensues as it becomes apparent that the conspiracy theories were not unfounded. As the crew of the Cloverfield Station prepares to test the Shepard particle accelerator, conspiracy theorists back on Earth spin stories about how the accelerator will rip open portals in the fabric of time and unleash horrors from parallel universes. The Cloverfield Paradoxis the third installment in the Cloverfield franchise, which follows the crew of an international space station that travels into a parallel dimension while trying to solve the Earth’s energy crisis. Run Time: 1 hr 42 min | Director: Julius OnahĬast: Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth Debicki, Aksel Hennie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Chris O'Dowd, John Ortiz, David Oyelowo, Zhang Ziyi

Funny Little Alien by Benjamin Daniel